Commerce Casino
A large California cardroom and casino-hotel complex in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce.
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Overview
Commerce Casino, officially known as Commerce Casino & Hotel, is a cardroom and entertainment complex in Commerce, California, southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Established in 1983, it developed into one of the largest cardrooms in the world, with the referenced Wikipedia material describing a site containing more than 240 tables. Unlike a traditional Las Vegas-style casino, its gaming model is shaped by California law: poker is played directly among customers, while many non-poker table games are structured as player-banked California Games rather than games in which the casino itself takes the opposing position. The venue earns revenue from hosting and servicing these games, including collection and rental arrangements associated with third-party game providers. Poker is the central business of the property. The room has offered limit, pot-limit, and no-limit formats, including Texas hold'em, seven-card stud, Omaha hi-lo split, and HORSE. Its hold'em offering has historically been particularly extensive, with stakes ranging from relatively low-limit games to substantially larger games in the hotel section. The property has also promoted progressive and bad-beat jackpots, including a substantial hold'em super jackpot, although specific current jackpot terms are subject to change. Commerce Casino has been an important tournament venue in Southern California poker. Its recurring event calendar has included the Los Angeles Poker Classic, the California State Poker Championship, the Commerce Hold'em Series, and the L.A. Poker Open. The Los Angeles Poker Classic has been associated with major professional and celebrity poker events, including World Poker Tour programming and invitational competitions. The venue's tournament identity has therefore extended beyond everyday cash games into televised and professionally organized poker. The broader complex includes a 200-room Crowne Plaza hotel with restaurants, a day spa, beauty salon, pool and sundeck, banquet facilities, retail space, and entertainment amenities. The property has also hosted live boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling. A Playboy-themed gaming lounge opened at the venue in 2014. In July 2009, the property added a racebook offering satellite wagering connected with California and Eastern U.S. racetracks. Commerce Casino also provides California Games such as player-banked forms of blackjack, baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, and related variants. These offerings are adapted to California's regulatory framework, under which non-poker games in cardrooms are generally banked by players or licensed third-party providers rather than by the venue itself. The complex's combination of high-volume poker, tournament programming, hotel services, restaurants, and live events makes it a regional entertainment destination as well as a gaming venue. The casino has had a notable economic relationship with the City of Commerce. The supplied reference material states that it represented 38 percent of the city's tax revenues in fiscal year 2006–2007 and that, as of 2016, it was providing approximately $22 million annually in licensing fees to the city. These figures are historical and should not be treated as current financial results. The venue has also appeared in popular culture and filmed entertainment, including Fear the Walking Dead, Twin Peaks: The Return, Columbo, and references in Molly's Game.
History
Commerce Casino was established in 1983 in the City of Commerce, a Los Angeles suburb whose location placed the property within the large Southern California entertainment and gaming market. It operates as a cardroom rather than a conventional house-banked casino. That distinction is important because California gambling law requires non-poker cardroom games to use a player-banked or third-party-banked structure. The casino provides the premises, dealers, cards, chips, game supervision, and related services, while customers or approved providers fulfill the banking role for qualifying games. Poker became the property's defining activity. Commerce developed a broad cash-game schedule covering fixed-limit, pot-limit, and no-limit formats. Texas hold'em has been the most prominent offering, with games available across a wide range of stakes. Other formats identified in reference material include seven-card stud, Omaha hi-lo split, and HORSE. The room also used bad-beat and other jackpot promotions to support recurring play. Its scale and concentration on hold'em helped establish Commerce as one of the most prominent poker venues in the United States. The casino expanded its role through tournament programming. The Los Angeles Poker Classic became its signature annual series, traditionally running from January into early March and incorporating major professional and celebrity events. Additional recurring series included the California State Poker Championship, the Commerce Hold'em Series, and the L.A. Poker Open. These events connected the property with the broader professional poker ecosystem and helped make it a destination for both local cash-game players and tournament participants. Commerce broadened beyond poker through California Games, including variants of blackjack, baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, and related games. Because the games are adapted to California's regulatory structure, customers do not ordinarily play against the casino as the house. Instead, the casino hosts the game and receives compensation through collections and arrangements with game providers. This model distinguishes the property from Nevada casinos while allowing it to offer a varied table-game menu. The property also developed into a hotel and entertainment complex. The supplied reference describes a 200-room Crowne Plaza hotel integrated into the site, together with dining venues, a spa, salon, pool, sundeck, banquet rooms, shops, and entertainment facilities. A racebook opened in July 2009 for satellite wagering on races from California and eastern U.S. tracks. In 2014, the casino opened a Playboy-themed gaming lounge. The complex has hosted boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling, illustrating an effort to use the venue for events beyond gaming. The casino has had substantial fiscal importance for the municipality. Reference material states that it generated 38 percent of Commerce's tax revenues in the 2006–2007 fiscal year. It also reports that the property was paying approximately $22 million annually in licensing fees to the city as of 2016. Those figures describe historical municipal contributions and do not establish present-day revenue or licensing payments. Commerce Casino has appeared in television and film-related contexts. Its exterior was used in an episode of Fear the Walking Dead, where it was shown amid a fictional Los Angeles disaster. The property was also featured as the Silver Mustang in Twin Peaks: The Return and appeared in Columbo. Molly's Game, a film based on the story of Molly Bloom's underground poker operation, references Commerce Casino. In 2021, the venue hosted the United Wrestling Network's Red Carpet Rumble pay-per-view. Current ownership, senior leadership, and the property's present operating metrics are not established by the supplied source material.
- 2021
United Wrestling Network event is hosted at the property
[1]Commerce Casino hosts the United Wrestling Network's Red Carpet Rumble pay-per-view.
- 2016
Historical licensing-fee contribution reported
[1]The casino is reported to be providing approximately $22 million per year in licensing fees to the City of Commerce.
- 2014
Playboy-themed gaming lounge opens
[1]A Playboy-themed gaming lounge is added to the casino complex.
- 2009
Racebook opens
[1]The property adds a racebook offering satellite wagering associated with racetracks in California and the eastern United States.
- 2007
Casino represents a major share of city tax revenues
[1]For Commerce's 2006–2007 fiscal year, the casino is reported to have generated 38 percent of municipal tax revenues.
- 1983
Commerce Casino is established
[1]The cardroom opens in Commerce, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Products and positioning
A major Southern California cardroom built around high-volume poker, recurring tournament series, California-compliant table games, and an integrated hotel and entertainment complex.
Gaming
Poker cash games
Poker is the property's core offering, with limit, pot-limit, and no-limit games. The documented menu includes Texas hold'em, seven-card stud, Omaha hi-lo split, and HORSE. Hold'em is especially prominent, with stakes ranging from low-limit and low-buy-in games to larger games in the hotel section. The casino has also offered bad-beat jackpots and a hold'em super jackpot, though promotional terms and amounts may change.
Poker tournament series
Los Angeles Poker Classic
The Los Angeles Poker Classic is the property's principal annual poker festival. Reference material describes it as traditionally taking place from January through early March and including a World Poker Tour event, a Professional Poker Tour event, and a celebrity-oriented World Poker Tour Invitational. It has served as Commerce Casino's most prominent tournament platform.
Poker tournament
California State Poker Championship
An annual tournament identified in the casino's event calendar. It was originally scheduled in June and was later moved to May to reduce overlap with the World Series of Poker, according to the supplied reference material.
Poker tournament series
Commerce Hold'em Series
A recurring tournament series focused on Texas hold'em events and positioned around smaller buy-ins than the property's flagship festival. Reference material places the series in September.
Poker tournament series
L.A. Poker Open
A recurring poker tournament series held at Commerce Casino in November. The supplied material identifies it as one of the property's established tournament programs.
Table gaming
California Games
Commerce offers California-compliant versions of non-poker table games, including Pan, no-bust blackjack, Three Card Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, 21st Century Baccarat, EZ Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Super Pan Nine, and 13 Card. These games are structured so that players or third-party providers bank the action rather than the casino itself.
Hospitality
Crowne Plaza hotel complex
The casino complex includes a 200-room Crowne Plaza hotel, together with restaurants, a day spa, beauty salon, swimming pool and sundeck, banquet rooms, shops, and entertainment facilities. The hotel component supports overnight stays, events, and non-gaming visits connected with the cardroom.
Off-track betting · 2009
Racebook
Opened in July 2009, the racebook provides satellite wagering connected with racetracks in California and the eastern United States. It extends the property's gaming offer beyond cardroom play and California table games.
Brand decisions
2014
Open a Playboy-themed gaming loungeProduct launchBackground
Commerce Casino expanded its branded entertainment environment and gaming presentation.
Action taken
The casino introduced a Playboy-themed gaming lounge.
Aftermath
The lounge became an additional themed element within the broader casino and hotel complex.
2009
Add off-track betting through a racebookProduct launchBackground
The cardroom sought to broaden its gaming and wagering offer beyond poker and California table games.
Action taken
Commerce Casino opened a racebook offering satellite wagering connected with California and eastern U.S. racetracks.
Aftermath
The property gained an additional wagering service alongside its established cardroom operations.
Recent events
- 2021
Commerce Casino hosts United Wrestling Network's Red Carpet Rumble[1]
Other
The venue hosted the United Wrestling Network's Red Carpet Rumble pay-per-view event, continuing its use as a location for live professional wrestling and entertainment programming.
- 2016
Commerce Casino licensing-fee contribution reported at approximately $22 million annually[1]
Other
Reference material reported that the casino was providing the City of Commerce with approximately $22 million per year in licensing fees. This is a historical figure, not a current financial disclosure.
- 2014
Commerce Casino opens Playboy-themed gaming lounge[1]
Product launch
Commerce Casino added a Playboy-themed gaming lounge as part of its effort to broaden the property's entertainment and gaming presentation.
- 2009
Commerce Casino launches racebook[1]
Product launch
The property's racebook opened in July, offering satellite wagering connected with racetracks in California and the eastern United States.
- 2007
Commerce Casino reported as a major source of municipal revenue[1]
Other
Reference material states that the casino accounted for 38 percent of Commerce's tax revenues during the city's 2006–2007 fiscal year.
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